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Aug. 19, 2010, 6 p.m.

Links on Twitter: Augmented reality in Germany, app labs in NYC, more paywalls in Britain

Hold your iPhone over the German magazine Sueddeutsche Zeitung and experience augmented reality http://j.mp/aVFcKw »

Hearst to create a collaborative App Lab in NYC "to promote smart mobile expressions of branded content" http://j.mp/9uuDyi »

OffTheBus redux: HuffPost is recruiting citizen journalists to cover upcoming House, Senate midterms http://j.mp/bVCv7f »

The new case for longform, both financial http://j.mp/bCCxZw and technological http://j.mp/cfosDa »

UK’s News of the World plans a paywall strategy that will "hinge on exclusive video content" http://j.mp/9n9hyz »

Facebook Places launched last night; CNET riffs on what the network’s new layer might mean for news http://j.mp/dhfHdF »

 
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Here’s how 13 news outlets are using LinkedIn newsletters
“While you’re less at the whim of the algorithm, it’s still social media.”
Forget the link tax. Focus on one key metric to “save local news”
“You need Google to stay in this. Otherwise, it devastates the entire industry.”
So who are the consistent news avoiders?
“No single variable is more predictive of whether someone consistently avoids news than their level of interest in politics and civic affairs.”